Short Buddhist Poems

The huge
Buddhist statue
Afraid of
The mouse...

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pulse of 
buddhist
enlightenment



posted on August 31, 2018...

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The Buddhist monk
emerging from
the firewall
of scared incense
becoming the
bright beige
bamboo
butterfly...

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Fossilize sunset
Seagulls, still praying
Quietly, holding on
To this Buddhist sky
Holding on to this
World gone by...

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beacon of hope
dalai lama in exile
his gift to the world



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on October 6, 2022...

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a bud seeds...
it's sprout form

and bud-ism...
is growth shaping

into a buddhist...
bud and flow-air


stans sand...

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Dog Mojo


My dog named Boho...
     Met a mystical Dojo.
           Boho found his Buddhist mojo.

Panagiota Romios
4/14//2019...

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The Buddhist monk
Following dental examination
Refused an injection
For his required dental extrication
Instead he chose to
Transcend dental medication...

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A Jewish attorney, Raskolnikov,
his Buddhist half-brother, Kaletnikov,
now here comes the bother,
they mimic each other,
so who gets 'good health!' or a 'mazel tov?'...

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wherever 
we go
there
will be 

decay and
absence

for the
moment
we absorb

and learn
stillness


become
silent




listen 
silently






silently
becoming...

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sung buddhist prayers
released afloat spring rivers
    a skyward mist



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on March 5, 2018 for contest HAIKU, THEME: WATER  sponsored by MICK TALBOT...

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Listen to poem:

in gratitude
we went
our way
admiring
the wonder
of another
sunny day
thankful for
the happiness
in our life
humble 
yet
so blessed



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on July 14, 2020...

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The wind is my soul, I am forever in motion,
I am everywhere in a moment,
Bursting forth from the moment before.
Always, I end where I start, 
From that exact same moment
Where all things began....

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I left my hands behind miles ago.
My eyes drift 30 feet behind my body.
My heart waddles over hot gravel.
A Highway Dust Angel.
My brain took an Uber. My soul 
Bought by a Buddhist back in Biloxi....

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Anywhere anytime
our here and now
where the night begins
passions revolving door
love’s sukah prayer






(sukah-buddhist term for the bliss and joy of 
moving through the universe with ease.)...

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The Buddha insists on the absence of ‘I'.
We banish the self if we ardently try.
I’ve done meditation
and hoped for salvation.
So who became Buddhist?  The Buddha — not I....

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Buddha numerics
Time between death and rebirth
cosmic waiting room















(bardo- intermediate space of time between 
death and rebirth. Symbolically, 7 to
49 days in Buddhist time.)...

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I am neither a Hindu,
nor a Muslim,
nor a Christian,
nor a Sikh,
nor a Jew,
nor a Buddhist,
nor a Zoroastrian.

Darkness or Kali
as I call it
is
  my
      Religion;
Dark Nothingness
I meditate on....

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the Shaolin Buddhist Monk
sit right in the center of the 
city square wearing bright
orange sacred robe
in lotus position
soaked in gasoline
did lite the match to himself 
who silently cried out for peace...

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I think like a buddhist
but pray like a nun

I see like the mountain
but reach like the sun

I stand like Gibraltar
but rage like the sea

And love like a child
—reborn unto Thee

(First Book Of Prayers: May, 2017)...

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I think like a Buddhist,
but pray like a nun

I see like the mountain,
but reach like the sun

I stand like Gibraltar,
but rage like the sea

And love like a child
—reborn unto Thee

(1st Book Of Prayers: May, 2017)...

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We have "civilized" ourselves in a hurry, so we hurry and feel busy, VIPs:
Life is like great music, magnificent dance. It doesn't rush to the END -
If the end, the goal, was ALL, the fastest dance, the quickest song, would win...

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Buddhist: self-immolation

Muslim: blow everyone up

Christian: just shoot you

Hindu: Sikh revenge

zeal: (noun) a feeling of strong eagerness, 
	excessive fervor to do something or 
	accomplish some end
	
© Goode Guy 2012-11-27...

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I think like a Buddhist,
  but pray like a nun

I see like the mountain,
  but reach like the sun

I stand like Gibraltar,
  but rage like the sea

And love like a child,
  reborn unto thee

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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I'm woozy with the uncertainties of life. 
I'm staggering back and forth, 
slamming into one wall and then another. 
I cling to a banister 
wondering how it can be 
that I'm even alive.  
Bitter to be still living. 
Grateful to have survived so long....

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